Politwoops, the service that preserves politicians’ deleted tweets for posterity and to hold them to account, has a new parent: nonprofit, public interest investigative journalism corporation ProPublica. Read More
Showing posts with label Natasha Lomas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natasha Lomas. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd launches an early stage digital health fund
Israel-based equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd is launching a sector specific fund fully focused on digital health — touting it as Israel’s first fund with such a focus. The fund, called OurCrowd Qure, will invest in early stage startups at the seed and Series A level. Fundraising is starting now, with a target of $50 million for the first raise. Read More
Play My Way app aims to turn kids’ love of mobile devices on its head
Parents despairing of ever being able to separate their offspring from the mobile devices glued to their fingertips might be interested in an app called Play My Way that’s being built by a startup from Lebanon and designed to interrupt other apps with a little worthy educational content. Read More
Monday, 31 October 2016
Edtech giant Coursera has launched a monthly subscription payment option in the hope that learners on its platform can be enticed into ongoing educational activity, rather than a more piecemeal pay-per-course-bundle option. 
Vine founders’ Hype app blends live video into a rich multimedia mix
Does the world need another live video app? Meerkat’s demise might suggest not, but that hasn’t stopped Vine’s co-founders from screwing their courage to the sticking place and stepping into a highly contested space with the launch of an iOS app called Hype — days after Twitter announced it would be shuttering their looping video app, apparently without even doing them… Read More
Friday, 28 October 2016
WhatsApp-Facebook privacy U-turn now being probed by EU data watchdog
A seismic shift in privacy policy by messaging app WhatsApp this summer, when it said it would begin sharing user data with parent company Facebook including for ad targeting, has now attracted the attention of European’s data protection watchdog group, the Article 29 Working Party. Read More
Uber drivers are workers rather than self-employed contractors, according to a ruling by an employment tribunal in the UK. 
